Humans, On Rights

This week, we welcome Clan Mother Jamie Goulet to the Humans on Rights podcast. Jamie is a co-founder of Clan Mothers Healing Village, a beautiful lodge whose mission is to help women and girls with an array of different issues, from environmental issues to human trafficking and sex slavery and so much more. As they expanded, they took on the name Clan Mothers Healing Village and Knowledge Centre...

Water…we use water form everything from cooking to bathing. There is hardly anything we can do without water. We live in a culture where take perhaps certain things like water for granted. Water…it’s a good thing right? But what happens from a mental and physical perspective when a human made flood forces people, families, entire communities off their land. In this episode Dr. Myrle Ballard talks...

It has been said that a continued engagement with history is vital because it helps give context for the present. Black History Manitoba (@bhmwinnipeg #BlackHistoryManitoba) and Black History Month (#BlackHistoryMonth) is an opportunity to celebrate Black History going beyond stories of racism and slavery to spotlight Black achievement. On this episode, Ms. Valerie Williams, the Director of Equity...

Ogo Okwumabua is a Winnipeg-based entrepreneur and co-owner of Zueike, an athleisure clothing company that designs and manufactures premium athletic apparel for all lifestyles. The meaning of Zueike is "to relax, to become more calm and happy, to slow down and unwind". The brand/company is built around community; the team at Zueike believe that we are all one people and one village. Every per...

Jeremy Maron was in Grade 8 when he went to a screening of the film Schindler’s List. It was a very emotional experience that was made that much more powerful when Holocaust survivor Philip Weiss shared his personal story as a Holocaust survivor. Today Dr. Jeremy Maron is a curator of Holocaust and genocide content at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (@CMHR_News) and he shares the remarkable s...

Ashley Nemeth is totally blind. She is a proud mother of three grown children, an entrepreneur, a manager of CNIB programs for Manitoba but it was during her high school years that Ashley discovered that despite her vision loss, she was very good at wrestling. So good in fact she became a provincial wrestling champion! Ashley Nemeth has worked at CNIB ( www.cnib.ca ) for 5 years. She has seen...

Dr. Noralou Roos is the co-director of the  Get Your Benefits! project , which works to help Manitobans identify and access the benefits and programs they are eligible for.  Dr. Roos is also the founding co-director for the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy and a professor emerita in community health sciences at the University of Manitoba. She is known for helping create Canada's first d...

The best way to protect yourself and others from HIV transmission is to be informed about prevention methods. For most people, taking PrEP ( PrEP stands for pre-exposure prophylaxis) is the best way to reduce the risk of HIV contraction. On this episode Mike Payne (he/him) the Executive Director of Nine Circles Community Health Centre talks about HIV, the stigma attached to those in our...

Micaela Crighton (She/They) and Leah Wilson (They/Them) are the Co-Chairs of Advocacy for the Institute for International Women's Rights -Manitoba and the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence. They both discovered their passion for human rights at an early age and have played significant roles in organizations such as the World Federalist Movement, the United Nations Commission on the...

Elizabeth Sellers is a paediatric endocrinologist and Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, University of Manitoba. She is also a Clinician Scientist, Children’s Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba. As a clinician and clinical researcher, her primary focus has been the epidemiology, pathophysiology, complications, treatment and support of youth with type 2 diabetes with a parti...

James Kornelson is the Public Engagement Manager at Canadian Foodgrains Bank. He is passionately involved in the production of education and advocacy resources on global hunger, recently aimed at mobilizing Canadians to advocate on Canada’s international climate finance commitments. Big job! Oh and he has a love affair with Winnipeg. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Click here...

Ayn Wilcox is the Executive Director of Klinic Community Health. In this conversation she connects the dots between her life learning at the Manitoba Agriculture Museum in Austin Manitoba and her current role as Executive Director at Klinic Community Health. Her life journey has been filled with a passion for learning and appreciating the importance of community. When it comes to understanding and...

Is World Peace possible? My guest on this episode thinks so. Dr. Charlotte Enns, the Director of the Arthur V. Mauro Centre for Peace and Justice believes if you can listen to other peoples stories, if you can understand other peoples points of view, that is the pathway to peace, and that is the way we are going to get to world peace even if that is an abstract concept. Dr. Enns explains the need...

According to Crisis Services Canada for every suicide death there are an estimated 20-25 attempts. An average of 275 people attempt suicide in Canada everyday. Aly Raposo had suicidal ideation, When you look at the number of awards and the high level of recognition Aly has learned it has to bereave that she contemplated suicide. In this episode of Humans, on Rights my guest Aly Raposo talks c...

The head archivist at the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation has an enormous and important task. Raymond Frogner and his team have to take 4 million documents, 7000 interview statements, tens of thousands of photographs and maps, make these records searchable, available and usable to educate Canadians about the residential school system. Raymond believes that the country is going through...

Just TV is considered one of the most accredited and successful programs run out of The Broadway Neighbourhood Centre in Winnipeg. Just TV has now been a success for over a decade, providing youth multitudes of opportunities from employment to resourcing, video production to music production. On this episode of Humans, on Rights meet 3 young amazing inspirational creative talents that have used Ju...

Lindy (Lindelwa) Guma was born in a small town in South Africa. Today she lives in Winnipeg. As a Black child growing up she played with White, Coloured, East Indian children. But when school started, she was forced to go to an all Black school. Growing up under Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, often called the architect of apartheid, Lindy shares her story of becoming aware that apartheid was kee...

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Canadian politician, elder statesman, academic and Pipe Carrier in the Anishinaabe Nation. The Honourable Lloyd Axworthy is proof that a local kid can reach international heights. From humble beginnings in the north end of Winnipeg to Chairing the World Refugee Council, Lloyd Axworthy has always believed that Canada can and should be a place to welcome those humans being displace by violence, clim...

Bill Campbell, the current President of the Keystone Agricultural Producers, is a 4th generation agriculture entrepeneur. If Food Safety is an isssue, Bill Campbell is a strong beleiver in how Manitoba Ag Producers are safely delivering on their food production to feed the world. Cambell reminds us that "he too, is a consumer!" and has enough confidence in how food product is grown that he would b...

"We are fighting climate change and building a community of environmental stewardship." That according to Liz Wilson, the President & CEO of Fort Whyte Alive is what drives her and her teams vision when asked about the importance of International Day of BioDiversity on May 22. Liz started out as an entrepreneur who successfully ran a 4th generation family business before moving into the non-pr...

Dilly Knoll is from a family of 16. So it is not surprising that the Executive Director of the Andrews Street Family Centre understands the meaning of family. But in this episode of Humans, on Rights, Dilly Knoll shares the difference between blood families and community families. She is fondly but respectfully referred to as the “Mom” of the Andrews Street Family Centre. Dilly led a group of comm...

Michael Barkman is a life-long Winnipegger and Manitoban, with a deep affection for the lands and water of Treaty 1 and 3 Territory. Michael cares deeply about social, economic, and environmental justice, and believes in collective movements and solutions rooted in the knowledge of local communities. He is able to practice this through his role as the Public Policy Coordinator with the Canadian Co...

Knowledge Keeper Allen Sutherland talks about how to understand Canada's Indigenous Peoples though shared history between Indigenous peoples and European settlers. It is a story of cultural disruption and missed opportunities. He shares the difference between an Elder and a Knowledge Keeper in his culture, and how the Creator gave him a journey to become a Knowledge Keeper. He talks about the rela...

M J Willard is a social activist who is a grandmother, but doesn't have grandchildren. She dresses up in clothes that mock stereotypes of older women and sing songs at protests. She talks about why peaceful protest and education are the best tools to change the world. From a life that has experienced racial and gender discrimination, M J Willard has broken barriers. She believes that Indigenous Pe...